The ‘dual-use’ potential of life science research has been a topic of increasing attention in recent years as part of the growing concern about the inadvertent or deliberate spread of disease. While ‘dual-use’ functions ...

It has increasingly been recognised that units of biological classification cannot be identified with the units of evolution. After briefly defending the necessity of this distinction I argue, contrary to the prevailing ...

This paper discusses what it means and what it takes to integrate data in order to acquire
new knowledge about biological entities and processes. Maureen O’Malley and Orkun Soyer
have pointed to the scientific work involved ...

This paper discusses what it means and what it takes to integrate data in order to acquire new knowledge about biological entities and processes. Maureen O’Malley and Orkun Soyer have pointed to the scientific work involved ...

This paper examines the notion of “translational research”, which has become a
dominant form of the institutionalization and practice of contemporary biomedicine, as
an entry point into theorizing questions of knowledge, ...

Debates about the emergence, signiﬁcance and long-term impact
of ‘big data’ have become ubiquitous across most scientiﬁc disciplines. Thanks to new technologies for generating and storing information, data production is ...

This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most ...

My topic is materiality and how ideas on materiality from my field—STS, science and technology studies—might cross over into management and organisation studies. ‘Sociomateriality’ (Orlikowski and Scott 2008) is already ...

This paper attacks the perennial philosophical and scientific quest for a simple and unified vision of the world. Without denying the attraction of this vision, I argue that such a goal often seriously distorts our ...

We examine the criteria used to validate the use of nonhuman organisms in
North-American alcohol addiction research from the 1950s to the present day. We
argue that this field, where the similarities between behaviors ...

We examine the criteria used to validate the use of nonhuman organisms in North-American alcohol addiction research from the 1950s to the present day. We argue that this field, where the similarities between behaviors in ...